Techworld: US Army Lab Makes Major Linux Cluster Move

"A US Army supercomputing centre with a legacy that dates back to the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), which launched in 1946, is moving to Linux-based clusters. The move will more than double its computing capability.

"The Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) is buying four Linux Networx Advanced Technology Clusters, including a system with 4,488 processing cores, or 1,122 nodes, with each node made up of two dual-core Intel Xeon chips..."

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